Olympics
More Than 1,000 U.S. Spies in Brazil Protecting Rio Olympics nbcnews
In addition, more than a dozen highly trained Navy and Marine Corps commandos from the U.S. Special Operations Command are in Brazil, working with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy, according to senior military officials.
Economy
Financial calamity declared in Rio weeks before Olympics, but Games will go on washingtonpost
In an official decree published Friday afternoon by acting governor Francisco Dornelles, the state government said the crisis could cause a “total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management.”
Society
Oregon court allows person to change sex from 'female' to 'non-binary' oregonlive
...in what legal experts believe is a first in the United States....Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe's sex from "female" to non-binary.
